[issue1597850] Cross compiling patches for MINGW

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> added the comment:

> In particular, I think that X-compiling is a common request

added another one to the list.

justification: pywebkitgtk cross-compiling for win32, using mingw32.
i'm not paying for microsoft license fees, i'm not paying for a
computer capable of running msvc, i'm not paying for the bandwidth
to download msvc and/or set it up.

much happier with mingw32, but mingw32 runs like an absolute dog
under wine - and often wine_server hangs.  (at least a 20x performance
hit for running msys and mingw32 under wine).

so... that leaves cross-compiling.

i need the development libraries from python 2.5 in order to create
a windows version of pywebkitgtk.

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